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The Preferment platform, explained
The Preferment platform is Rarified Life's home for redesigning life after a career, built around its 8-week live course. Rarified Life describes the Preferment framework behind it as research-backed, and the platform lists books and 1:1 coaching as coming soon for people who want more ways in.
See the six course modulesWhat is the Preferment platform?
The Preferment Life Platform is the collection of Rarified Life programs built on the Preferment framework. Right now its core is the live course; the free presentation offers an introduction, and books and 1:1 coaching are listed as coming soon.
What the Preferment platform includes
8-week live course
Available nowEight weekly live sessions with Anne van Leynseele, the Preferment book, and homework built into it.
Free presentation
Available nowAn introduction to a 5-step plan, aimed at accomplished women in their 50s and 60s nearing or in retirement.
Books
Listed as coming soonThe platform lists books as coming soon. The Preferment book is already included in the course.
1:1 coaching
Listed as coming soonIndividual coaching appears on the platform as coming soon, for people who want one-to-one support.
What does the Preferment framework focus on?
The Preferment framework focuses on three things: personal values, meaningful pursuits, and continuous learning. Rarified Life designed it especially for high achievers planning life after 50, people whose careers gave their days structure, status, and a ready answer to the question of what they do.
Personal values
Future plans start from what you care about, not from what you used to do.
Meaningful pursuits
Days filled with work that matters to you, rather than errands and appointments.
Continuous learning
A next chapter treated as growth, not a slow wind-down.
How the platform supports structured life redesign
Most retirement preparation is financial: accounts, income, and timelines. The Preferment platform covers the part a spreadsheet cannot, which is how you will spend your time and who you will be when the job title is gone. Rarified Life's own materials describe smart, capable people who get months into retirement and stop answering the phone. The platform is built to prevent that drift.
Structure is the difference. Rather than offering motivation alone, the course moves through six modules in a fixed order, with homework between every session. Identity work comes first, because it is hardest to plan a future while your sense of self still lives in a former role. Accountability comes near the end, because a plan without routine rarely survives contact with an empty calendar.
The book behind the course uses water as its central image of change. In Chapter 5, Embracing the Currents of Change, Anne van Leynseele writes that water adapts, flows, and carves its path through solid rock “not by force but through persistence and patience.”
Ready to see what each week covers? Read the Preferment curriculum, check the course price, or return to the Preferment course guide.
Common questions about Preferment
What is the Preferment platform?
The Preferment Life Platform is Rarified Life’s home for its life-after-career offerings. Today it centers on the 8-week live course, with books and 1:1 coaching listed as coming soon. Rarified Life describes the Preferment framework as research-backed and focused on aligning future plans with personal values, meaningful pursuits, and continuous learning.
Is Preferment research-backed?
Rarified Life describes Preferment as a research-backed framework. The course is built on Anne van Leynseele’s book Preferment, which serves as the companion text and workbook. For details on the research behind specific chapters and exercises, the book itself and rarifiedlife.com are the best places to confirm what each part draws on.
Is Preferment retirement coaching or a course?
Preferment is currently a structured live course rather than open-ended coaching. You meet with Anne for eight weekly sessions and complete homework from the book between them. Rarified Life lists 1:1 coaching as coming soon on its platform, so check rarifiedlife.com if you specifically want individual retirement life coaching.
Can I buy the Preferment book without the course?
The Rarified Life platform lists Books as coming soon, and its site also shows a Purchase Book link to an ebook collection. Because availability may change, check rarifiedlife.com to see whether Preferment is sold on its own right now. Inside the course, the book is always included as your text and workbook.
What if I am not ready to commit to eight weeks?
You can start smaller. Rarified Life offers a free presentation that introduces its 5-step plan for replacing the “What now?” feeling of retirement, and you can read through the six modules on this site first. Books are also listed as coming soon on the platform.
Why is it called Preferment instead of retirement?
Rarified Life uses the word Preferment to replace the idea of retirement as an ending. Its own tagline is “Ditch retirement... try Preferment instead.” The course treats the years after a career as an ascension: a chapter you design around your values and strengths, rather than a stop sign at the end of work.
Keep exploring the Preferment platform
- The Preferment courseThe pillar guide to the 8-week live course for life after a career.
- The six modulesIntroduction through Launch, and what each week of the course covers.
- Price and inclusionsThe listed investment, what it covers, and what to confirm first.
- Purpose after 50 and 60How the course approaches identity, direction, and life after 50.
- Course vs coach vs plannerA fair side-by-side on the same criteria, and who should choose what.